Publications [#232910] of Jie Liu

Journal Articles

1. Ding, L; Zhang, Z; Liang, S; Pei, T; Wang, S; Li, Y; Zhou, W; Liu, J; Peng, L-M, CMOS-based carbon nanotube pass-transistor logic integrated circuits., Nature communications, vol. 3 (February, 2012), pp. 677, ISSN 2041-1723 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/15)

   Abstract:
   Field-effect transistors based on carbon nanotubes have been shown to be faster and less energy consuming than their silicon counterparts. However, ensuring these advantages are maintained for integrated circuits is a challenge. Here we demonstrate that a significant reduction in the use of field-effect transistors can be achieved by constructing carbon nanotube-based integrated circuits based on a pass-transistor logic configuration, rather than a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor configuration. Logic gates are constructed on individual carbon nanotubes via a doping-free approach and with a single power supply at voltages as low as 0.4 V. The pass-transistor logic configurarion provides a significant simplification of the carbon nanotube-based circuit design, a higher potential circuit speed and a significant reduction in power consumption. In particular, a full adder, which requires a total of 28 field-effect transistors to construct in the usual complementary metal-oxide semiconductor circuit, uses only three pairs of n- and p-field-effect transistors in the pass-transistor logic configuration.